Those born on this date include:

- Austrian physicist Christian Doppler in 1803
- author Louisa May Alcott in 1832
- Chinese Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi in 1835
- English electrical engineer John Fleming, who devised the vacuum diode that marked the birth of electronics, in 1849
- film choreographer Busby Berkeley in 1895
- Irish novelist C.S. Lewis in 1898
- sports broadcasting legend Vin Scully in 1927 (age 89)
- former French President Jacques Chirac in 1932 (age 84)
- British blues musician John Mayall in 1933 (age 83)
- actor Diane Ladd in 1932 (age 84)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Denny Doherty and musician/composerMusician/composer Chuck Mangione (age 76), both in 1940
- comedians Garry Shandling in 1949 and Howie Mandel in 1955 (age 61)
- filmmaker Joel Coen in 1954 (age 62)
- Janet Napolitano, former U.S. secretary of Homeland Security, in 1957 (age 59)
- Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 1959 (age 57)
- actors Cathy Moriarty in 1960 (age 56), Kim Delaney and Tom Sizemore, both in 1961 (age 55), Andrew McCarthy in 1962 (age 54) and Don Cheadle in 1964 (age 52)
- and record-setting relief pitcher Mariano Rivera in 1969 (age 47).

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